Leg amputated after a shaving injury

Shaving Legs – The Infection Leads to Amputation

A United Kingdom woman had to be amputated from one leg because she had cut herself off legs years ago. The incision resulted in an aggressive infection that could not be completely stopped even after months of medical treatment.

Shaving the Leg with Bad Consequences

Hair removal is a daily routine for many men and women. Shaving legs often causes skin irritation and redness. Even ingrown hairs or even inflammation of the hair roots can be the result. Leg shaving can have even worse effects: According to a press article, a woman from the UK has lost a leg after being cut off while waxing.

The wound widens

According to a report from the online portal "SWNS.com", Tanya Czernozukow of Nottingham in the United Kingdom did not think about shaving the hair in 2014

"I did it a thousand times, so I just put a tissue on it and waited for it to stop bleeding," she explained.

And even when the wound was infected and injured the 43-year-old mother ignored her wound on the cut.

However, in the next six months, the injury tripled and became a "huge hole."

Czernozukov said: "In a few weeks it is green and black from my ankle to my knee.The pain was an absolute hell."

Gangrene of leg ulcer

During following 18 months, doctors tried to fight the aggressive infection.

The patient told "SWNS.com", "More and more painkillers were needed to take in. It was a constant feeling of thousands of needles that were in me." 19659008] When she was sitting, so always with the "leg in a plastic bag – there was so much liquid, I felt like in a horror movie." 19659008] Finally the pain became so serious that She had to go to the hospital for several days, where the doctors told her that she had a leg ulcer (ulcus cruris) that had developed into gangrene (formerly known as the name "gangrene").

Wound healing is lower in diabetes

In addition, she was diagnosed with diabetes.

According to health experts, diabetics are among those who have wound healing. Even with the English, the body's healing powers were greatly weakened by diabetes, so the infection could spread in this way

Doctors treated the woman with potent antibiotics.

But even after her release, she had to go back to the clinic, for a biotherapy, among other things, where the medical maggots clean the wounds by eating the dead tissue.

Painful treatment, however, failed: "For 24 hours, I shouted at agony."

Amputation Patient Awarded

In April 2016, doctors at the Queen's Medical Center in Nottingham finally suggested thinking about the drastic step of leg removal

"They said that we do not need to amputate, but the treatment could take years.It heals at all, and I only tell them: Yes, remove it.I want it to go away. "

When she came for the first time after the operation, she was shocked by what she said, "There was only a few inches left of my leg." I was in Shock was like waking up in a nightmare. "

After the amputation, Ms. Czernozukov was hospitalized for five months and after her discharge, she had to learn how to move, she said. sit down and walk with an badistant or a cane.

She hopes to have a prosthesis in the near future.

The remaining leg is no longer shaved

Her remaining leg does not strip her anymore. "I do not shave the other leg anymore." It scares me, "Czernozukov told SWNS.com

" Strange as it may seem, I do not regret the operation a little. "

According to the information, the infection was stopped by the procedure. The patient is now free from all suffering and is preparing to continue her life.

"I would like to go back to work. I think I have almost finished mentally. It's the next step in my life. "(Ad)